Why yes, Amazon Game Studios is part of Amazon.com. It seems like the studio was originally founded to make games for Amazon devices, like the Kindle Fire, is expanding to other platforms with four games, Lost Within, Til Morning’s Light, To-Fu Fury, and Tales From Deep Space. The games offer a range of styles, characters, and game play from a teenage girl solving puzzles to escape a haunted mansion, a first person escape from the abandoned asylum, a fun quirky space exploration game and a street fighter-esque game where you play as a samurai piece of tofu.

Lionsgate has acquired the rights and has Dan Lin, one of The Lego Movie producers, on board. I admit, I haven’t played Dust, an alternate history WWII miniatures game. The game does have a big enough following to host its own convention, the Dust World Expo.

Offworld was announced last week Gamasutra editor Leigh Alexander at a moving #1ReasonToBe panel last week at GDC. The site, partnered with Boing Boing, was rebooted and launched on Monday and in typical Boing Boing style is mostly composed of short posts, including older posts dated pre-launch, but rebranded as Offworld. Initial buzz from in my gamer circles has been cautious optimism, so I’ll follow along and see what develops.